Write Every Day: 29 August 02019
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silveradeptGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 29 August 02019.
I held back one of the things from yesterday that I discovered, mostly because it didn't obviously fit the theme of "the way that transformative works are changing the landscape of fandom", although the more I think about it, it might just.
I'm a big fan of the Sorting Hat Chats system of Primary and Secondary Hogwarts Houses, (with extra fun when you add Models, Performances, and the Stripped/Burned/Fallen/Prtrified forms of the Primaries and Secondaries) because it does a lot of good work toward giving each house a fair shake and in separating out the reasons why you do a thing and the methods you use to accomplish them. The neat thing I was linked to was a quiz that suggests what your Primary and Secondary might be, based on answering questions. It also has the options for you to say that something doesn't fit or isn't quite right to help refine what you might be or for you to say that they're wrong entirely. Much like how the Hat itself gave Harry the choice of houses, even though it knew he'd do just as well in either house presented.
Unsurprisingly, I ended up where I always end up when I take a Sorting test - Hufflepuff Primary, Hufflepuff Secondary. Which, y'know, isn't bad to have. It's jsut that because the source spent so little time on showing us what Huifflepuffs were like, they became Team Nobody Notices, and it's been a lot of fans' work that makes them Team Nobody Notices (Until It's Too Late). War badgers and the like. So while I can't deny that it's my house and I exempllify it, there's always a sort of "but I don't particularly want to be an NPC" that flares up every time I get my results. And possibly a little bit of something where I know I'll put in the work and help the people and think that people are important and it's likely it won't result in any sort of fame, fortune, or even acknowledgment of a job well done. Because that's Hufflepuff. They show up, they do the work, they build communities, and everyone thinks of them as always having been there, doing things that are necessary but not glamorous.
I was poking through the reblogs that tagged in Sorting Hat Chatss, and someone did some of the Miraculous Ladybug heroes, and I found myself disagreeing completely with the post, which is great if I ever want to write it up, but not something that I'll get into here in the check-in post.
I wrote today. A few more words in a scene that seemed to be moving a bit clunkily, and then another minor meltdown decided it might appear there, and that seems to be giving the scene some life, so I'll go with that, and let my beta reader tell me whether it makes sense for any of this to be happening at all. (I don't envy them the task, but I do have to actually get the thing done at some point.)
Two days left before we decamp and headchina_shop's way.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 1:alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 2:alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 3:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 4:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 5:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, shopfront, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 6:alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 7:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 8:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 9:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 10:alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, china_shop, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 11:alexcat, alexseanchai, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 12:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, shopfront, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 13:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, yslime.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 14:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 15:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 16:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 17:alexcat, alexseasnchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 18:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 19:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 20:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 21:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 22:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 23:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 24:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 25:alexcat, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerfmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 26:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 27:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 28:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
People who have checked in with writing on Day 29:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
I held back one of the things from yesterday that I discovered, mostly because it didn't obviously fit the theme of "the way that transformative works are changing the landscape of fandom", although the more I think about it, it might just.
I'm a big fan of the Sorting Hat Chats system of Primary and Secondary Hogwarts Houses, (with extra fun when you add Models, Performances, and the Stripped/Burned/Fallen/Prtrified forms of the Primaries and Secondaries) because it does a lot of good work toward giving each house a fair shake and in separating out the reasons why you do a thing and the methods you use to accomplish them. The neat thing I was linked to was a quiz that suggests what your Primary and Secondary might be, based on answering questions. It also has the options for you to say that something doesn't fit or isn't quite right to help refine what you might be or for you to say that they're wrong entirely. Much like how the Hat itself gave Harry the choice of houses, even though it knew he'd do just as well in either house presented.
Unsurprisingly, I ended up where I always end up when I take a Sorting test - Hufflepuff Primary, Hufflepuff Secondary. Which, y'know, isn't bad to have. It's jsut that because the source spent so little time on showing us what Huifflepuffs were like, they became Team Nobody Notices, and it's been a lot of fans' work that makes them Team Nobody Notices (Until It's Too Late). War badgers and the like. So while I can't deny that it's my house and I exempllify it, there's always a sort of "but I don't particularly want to be an NPC" that flares up every time I get my results. And possibly a little bit of something where I know I'll put in the work and help the people and think that people are important and it's likely it won't result in any sort of fame, fortune, or even acknowledgment of a job well done. Because that's Hufflepuff. They show up, they do the work, they build communities, and everyone thinks of them as always having been there, doing things that are necessary but not glamorous.
I was poking through the reblogs that tagged in Sorting Hat Chatss, and someone did some of the Miraculous Ladybug heroes, and I found myself disagreeing completely with the post, which is great if I ever want to write it up, but not something that I'll get into here in the check-in post.
I wrote today. A few more words in a scene that seemed to be moving a bit clunkily, and then another minor meltdown decided it might appear there, and that seems to be giving the scene some life, so I'll go with that, and let my beta reader tell me whether it makes sense for any of this to be happening at all. (I don't envy them the task, but I do have to actually get the thing done at some point.)
Two days left before we decamp and head
china_shop's way.People who have checked in with writing on Day 1:
alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 2:
alexcat, alexseanchai, athaia, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 3:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 4:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme. People who have checked in with writing on Day 5:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, shopfront, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 6:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sonia, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 7:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 8:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 9:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 10:
alexseanchai, auroracloud, boxofdelights, carenejeans, china_shop, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 11:
alexcat, alexseanchai, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 12:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, shopfront, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 13:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, yslime. People who have checked in with writing on Day 14:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 15:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 16:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 17:
alexcat, alexseasnchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 18:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, shopfront, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 19:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, lferion, magnetic_pole, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 20:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 21:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 22:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 23:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 24:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 25:
alexcat, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerfmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 26:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 27:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 28:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.People who have checked in with writing on Day 29:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, bookherd, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme.
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Date: 2019-08-30 06:30 am (UTC)I surprised myself by doing about 1000 words or so of worldbuilding scribbling for a space opera world. I'm supposed to be bad at worldbuilding!
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Date: 2019-08-30 07:00 am (UTC)With the secondary, it was a really tough call between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, because those both are modes I definitely use a lot, but ultimately Ravenclaw is the one I feel more likely to stick to, so I picked that in the end.
Hee, should try out sorting some characters and seeing what happens...
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Date: 2019-08-30 07:57 am (UTC)In other words: I did alibi research!
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Date: 2019-08-30 01:07 pm (UTC)Ours is based on saints, not founders, so that's a primary difference, but as we move ahead to figuring out our House crest and motto, I'm curious to see how the students in my house incorporate what they learn about our patron saint's life. Part of me wonders if it'll mean anything at all without a cool, rhyming song. ;-) (I'm only partially kidding...I've been saying since this whole house idea was floated that the admin had better read HP just to see how NOT to set up house rivalries.) Being at the inception of the process, I think our admin is underestimating how much a weight of existing tradition can mean to garnering student buy-in, but I suppose we'll see.
Anyway, sorry for the rambling!
I was sunburned, bone-deep exhausted, and had aching feet yesterday, but I did manage 361 words worth of notes on the MC's main squeeze in the ambush project. It helped to clarify some significant plot and pacing issues for me.
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Date: 2019-08-30 02:18 pm (UTC)One of the pieces of advice that got passed along to me informally is that people like the tallies in alphabetical order, to make it easier to know whether they've missed a day or not in their recording.
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Date: 2019-08-30 02:31 pm (UTC)I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the matters of house systems and the fanon v. canon conversations, even if I might feel like I'm a decade-and-a-half late to having them, considering I wasn't hooked into this part of the Internet when I was reading the books. (At university, I considered it a mark of pride that I could properly use "ship" to describe what someone else felt about the stories. They were Harry/Hermione, which I liked because it was "hero gets the smart girl" instead of "hero gets the pretty girl", but with time and maturity, I realize that Hermione would be ill0suited for Harry, and I'm not all that fond of her pairing up with Ron, unless while they're together afterward, Ron does a lot of work on himself to be less afraid and apologetic of who he is, because otherwise it's "brilliant girl chooses country bumpkin" and I'm not seeing that work out well at all.
Anyway, yes, please, do talk! I like those kinds of conversations and want to encourage them.
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Date: 2019-08-30 02:33 pm (UTC)The system always says that whichever house you identify with is your house, even if the system they have thinks you might have a different Primary or Secondary.
Gryfs are the Felt Idealists, who do what's right because it's what's right, and so I wouldn't be surprised a lot of people fit into that as their primary motivation. Being a Puff (A Felt Loyalist), I know that I want to do what's right because what's right helps as many/hurts as few people as possible, even if it means The Cause has to wait for a bit so that it can get itself sorted out into a form that's less harmful.
Hooray for a thousand words of worldbuilding!
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